Her death, or retirement into a monastery, would have seemed more consonant to her own dignity and to that of a tragic subject.
The first chapter contains an account of the ancient corpuscular philosophy, which, till corrupted by Leucippus and Democritus, Cudworth takes to have been not only theistic, but more consonant to theistic principles than any other.
He had a very good insight into the principles of universal gravitation, as an attribute of matter; but several of his assumptions as to the laws of motion are not consonant to truth.
It is certainly consonant to natural justice, that a citizen returning from captivity should be fully restored to every privilege and all property that he had enjoyed at home.
This is consonant to what had been the general determination of philosophers.
Hence, instead of one person, we must put a people; and the history will be found consonant to the truth.
Hannibal was rendered Annibas: Asdrubal, Asdroubas: and probably neither was consonant to the Punic mode of expression.
K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero.
J J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel--than which nothing could be more absurd.
Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, which end in a single consonant, following a single vowel, double the final consonantbefore a suffix beginning with a vowel.
Final y following a consonantchanges to i before a suffix not beginning with i.
In words not accented on the last syllable, the final consonantmay or may not be doubled.
The nasalization of vowels followed by a nasal consonant did not take place simultaneously with all the vowels.
In Early Old French every consonant was pronounced as written; by degrees many of them disappeared when followed by another consonant, whether in the same word (in which case they were generally omitted in writing) or in a following one.
The same occurred in the plural of many nouns, where a consonant was lost before the s of the flection; thus singular coc with short vowel, plural cos with long.
Even here the antiquity is to a considerable extent artificial or delusive, some of the insertions being due to analogy, and the popular language often omitting the traditional consonant or inserting a different one.
This species of taxation is consonant to the genius of the country, to the habits of our people--it comes too close to the pocket of the agriculturist, and is besides a source of revenue which ought to belong exclusively to the States.
However much our ancestors were considered as behind us in civilization, yet their laws were infinitely milder, in many instances, than in the present age of refinement.
Forcibly carrying a Imprisonment not less than 15 person out of the State years, nor more than 30 years; without his will, or the augmented if the criminal is a consent of the Magistrate, natural-born subject.
But their life was such as their speech, and they exhibited actions suitable and consonant to their sayings.
For it is not so necessary that the pleader (as Aeschines has it) and the law speak one and the same thing, as that the life of a philosopher be consonant to his speech.
The Stoics' way of reasoning upon this subject of flesh-eating is no way equal nor consonant with themselves.
Some attribute the doubling of the consonant to the Dorians, some to the Aeolians.
But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism.
Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal.
But such a description is less consonantwith the sense possible to the ancient myth, in which the ideas and conceptions just mentioned were not yet developed.
Some names resist any reasonable etymology, or at least any etymology consonant with the character of mythical appellations.
But if a diphthong precede the last consonant the rhyme must begin at that vowel of it whose sound most prevails; as, "Next to the Pow'r of making Tempest cease, Was in that storm to have so calm a Peace.
The consonant b, at the opening of words, has no very marked force; but it originates many expressive terms, often finely employed in poetry.
For producing a special harmony, consonant with special signification, other rules require to be followed.
But if they end in a consonant or mute e, the rhyme must begin at the vowel that precedes that consonant, and continue to the end of the word; as has been shewn by the former examples.
The account given by the Egyptians is consonant to that of the Indians: only they suppose him to have been of their own country; and to have set out by the way of Arabia and the Red Sea, till he arrived at the extremities of the East.
He shews that the name was of Egyptian original, at least consonant to the language of Egypt; for it was the same as the Nile.
This may be paraphrased in the following manner; and with such latitude will be found perfectlyconsonant to the truth.
This sound is also represented in Cornish by y consonant followed by u, as in the word yu, is, which has exactly the sound of the English personal pronoun you.
Some double the last consonant, which has the effect of shortening the sound of the preceding vowel, and if the last consonant is an s, giving it the sound of s instead of z.
In the third and fourth the consonant ends the word.
Between two vowels in the same word; after another consonant and followed by a vowel; or as a final followed by a grammatically connected word, such as an epithet, beginning with a vowel, as j.
The first vowel is probably the obscure vowel (as u in until), and the stress accent is on the syllable that follows the verbal prefix, so that even the consonant of the prefix is a little uncertain.
In the first and second the consonant is followed by a vowel.
You cannot get peace by giving a mere legal definition to the status of a minority, which is also necessarily your neighbour, and refusing a social action consonant with the legal definition.
It was not consonant with hidden but deep popular tradition or with popular appetites; it corresponded only to the mood of one European community in its wealthier classes.
For instance: 'A consonant is a letter that cannot be perfectly sounded without the help of a vowel.
This view is adopted in the Copyright Office Rules and defines accepted American practice, but is not consonantwith English and international views.
The child could never quite compass the sound "ex" in words where a consonant followed.
I shall then conclude with a few arguments to prove that, if the extension of the spirit of Christ's Kingdom be the proper object of the churches' pursuit, these views are as consonant with reason as they are with revelation.
Had he lived to finish the remaining portion of the play in a manner consonant with that which he has left us, there would probably have been no question as to the propriety of the means he used.
The writing is in a dainty vein, and had the piece been completed in a manner consonant with the simple and idyllic grace of the earlier scenes, it would have been no such unequal companion to Peele's Arraignment of Paris.
The words usual in Welsh oaths afford no clue to its solution; for the name of the Deity has two consonants and one vowel in English, while it has two vowels and one consonant in Welsh.
Another name invoked on these occasions has three consonants and two vowels in English, and one of the vowels is usually elided; in Welsh it has three vowels and three consonants, and colloquially the middle consonant is dropped.
There can be no doubt that the Arabic name, Usdum, is identical with Sodom, by a well-known custom of the language to invert the consonant and vowel of the first syllable.
The circumstance of his tomb being on the summit of a high hill is perfectlyconsonant with the sentiments of great heroes and chiefs, as frequently expressed in poems of the old Arabs.
Preface of his own, and an introduction, both very harmless and consonant to the three following papers which we had given in to both Houses.
Nevertheless, even if secondary, the unity and dominance through color and line must be present, and should be consonant with the unity and subordination in the meanings.
As for the explanation of consonance, we know that consonant tones have identical partial tones and are caused by vibration rates that stand to one another in simple ratios.
As for the first, consonant tones, when sounded together, seem to fit one another, almost to fuse, despite the fact that the different tones are distinguishable in the whole.
The rimes in binding words should bind thoughts also; the tonalities or contrasts of vowel and consonant should echo harmonies or strains in pervasive moods.
I forget whether in the Bishop of Chester's account of this cryptical language the consonant intercalated be G or not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consonant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
